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The article addresses that:

> If the answer is the salary, say it louder, and do not force yourself to make excuses.

> it'd be monstrous to mock the ambition on display

It's not "ambition" when it's what other people should do for you.

> Expelling people who have no particular attachment or roots to a given land is not ethnic cleansing.

And, pray tell, who decides if a person has "particular attachment or roots"? For example, would you be fine with me deciding if you do?

> but this kind of hyperbole

Looking at the linked DHH posts, which part(s) do you think make "ethnic cleansing" hyperbole? It seems like a pretty fair reading of his wishes to me.

> I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and/or a ramp. But a ramp is boring. You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. You can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp. You can’t get venture capital funding for a slightly wider doorframe.